WEEKLY MEMO, October 13, 2008 Submit items for memo of October 20, 2008 by 5 PM on FRIDAY, 10.17.08, to dstarewi@purdue.edu ****************** 1. ANNOUNCEMENTS ****************** 1.1: TOWN HALL MEETING to be held Thursday, 10.23.08, 1:30-3:00, in BRK 1001. Budget/Recharge information to be reviewed among other items of community interest. See you all there ? 1.2: Getinge autoclave training for October: Friday, 10.17.08, 10-10:30am, in BIND 233A; Friday, 10.24.08, 10-10:30am, in BIND 233A. To register, visit the training webpage located at http://www2.itap.purdue.edu/bnc/training/. 1.3: POSTER PRINTING, from Valerie Lawless, DP Engagement: The poster printer, located in MRGN 233, is now available for staff and students to use. We have two new students, Joshua and Paula, that have the following office hours: M-W 10:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m. and Thurs 9:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m. M-F 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. They have been trained to use all the equipment within that room and are available to assist you with your printing needs during those specified office hour times. If you need to use the poster printer outside of office hours, please check in with Valerie Lawless or Jackie Lanter in MRGN 120 suite. If your center sends a student that is not familiar with using the poster printer and it is not during office hours, a staff member from your area should accompany the student for access to be granted promptly. Otherwise, a staff or student may email their file to the poster print staff and they will print it for you during office hours: judoma@purdue.edu or lin19@purdue.edu. Please allow 48 hours for them to print your poster and have it ready for you to pick up in MRGN 233. You can work with them to establish a pick up time as well. Contact Valerie Lawless (lawlessv@purdue.edu) should you have any questions. ************* 2. NSAC NEWS ************* 2.1: New NSAC event: Fortnight Friday Lab Open House (12:30pm Friday; every other Friday). Lab Open House is an informal 10-15 minute tour of a lab or cleanroom bay in Birck, given by one or two graduate students who work in that lab. Tour guides will show the equipment they use and explain how it works. Everyone is welcome. For the lab tours, please wear long pants and closed-toe shoes and bring your own safety glasses or wear prescription glasses. Oct 17th, 12:30 pm: BNC 1031 - Scanning Probe Microscopy Lab: See an atomic force microscope (AFM) and a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and learn about their operation and imaging capabilities. Tour guides: Laura Biedermann and Gyan Prakash. Future tours: Fridays, at 12:30pm: Oct. 31st, Nov. 14th [none Nov. 28 in observance of University Holiday], and Dec. 12th[none Dec. 26 in observance of University Holiday]. ******************** 3. TOURS/VISITORS ******************** 3.1: Wednesday, 10.15.08, 10:00AM: Mary Jane Chew, Special Events Communications Manager, with Candiss Vibbert and Phillip Fiorini. 3.2: Wednesday, 10.15.08, 11:00AM: Robert Hamlen, consultant in the battery and electrochemistry fields; with Tim Sands. 3.3: Thursday, 10.16.08, 2:00PM: Dr. Paul Hommert, Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer, with Bara Cola. 3.4: Friday, 10.17.08, 1:00: Don Esses, 1973 ECE alum, with Tim Sands. 3.5: Friday, 10.17.08, 3:00-5:00: Fall Preview Days students and parents; self-guided tours. 3.6: Saturday, 10.18.08, 10:30AM: Fulbright Australia guests, with Pankaj Sharma. ************************************************ 4. SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS see item #7 below for descriptions, abstracts, and bios ************************************************ 4.1: Thursday, 10.16.08, 4:30PM, ME 161: Role of Science and Engineering in Shaping Our Energy Future, by Dr. Paul Hommert, Sandia National Laboratories. Refreshment served 4:00PM, ME 254. 4.2: Institute of Biological Engineering 2008 Annual Regional Student Conference: Friday, 10.17.08, social 6:00-8:00, PMU; and Saturday, 10.18.08, keynote speakers 10:30-11:30 and 1:30-2:30; student poster presentations 11:30-12:30. For further information, visit the Purdue IBE webpage at: http://www.engineering.purdue.edu/~ibe **************** 5. OPPORTUNITIES **************** 5.1: DISCOVERY PARK DEADLINES FOR SHOWALTER TRUST GRANT COMPETITION ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE VPRS DEADLINES: Dr. Rebars office is requiring that Center Directors rank the pre-proposals they receive and send them as a group; to meet this deadline, please send your pre-proposals to Tim Sands (tsands@purdue.edu) by Friday, January 2, 5:00PM. The Showalter pre-proposals need to be submitted electronically as a Word/PDF document attached to an e-mail. Please make sure your 2-page pre-proposals and brief CV(s) is (are) in one document before submitting to Prof. Sands. All guidelines, procedures, and instructions are available on-line at the following URL: http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/showalter.shtml. 5.2: New Purdue/IU Collaborative Seed Grants Opportunity: A new seed grant funding opportunity is available for collaborations between Purdue, West Lafayette, and Indiana University faculty. Entitled Collaboration in Biomedical/Translational Research (CBR/CTR) Pilot Grant Program, this competition is similar to the previous Collaboration in Biomedical Research (CBR) competitions, and has a deadline of December 1, 2008. Visit http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/funding/seedgrants.shtml for updated information about this competition. 5.3: The new Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08604. Some highlights of the changes since last year's solicitation are: Letter of Intent is no longer required or accepted Preliminary and full proposal deadlines have been revised: Preliminary Proposal deadlines: Type I: December 8, 2008 Type II: December 9, 2008 Full Proposal Deadline (by invitation only): May 20, 2009 Questions? cdi@nsf.gov or 703-292-8080. 5.4: The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) at UC Santa Barbara announces its International Research Fellowship competition for the 2008-2009 academic year. ICMR International Research Fellowships support research visits to non-US laboratories for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty affiliated with US Institutions. Typical durations are a few weeks - 3 months, with award amounts for travel and expenses of up to $5000; we anticipate that the applicant will continue to receive their regular salary support from their home institution. Conference travel is not supported. How to Apply: Application materials, consisting of a 1-page description of the collaboration, emphasizing the nature and motivation for the international component, a short CV and (for students and postdocs) a letter of support from the advisor, should be sent to the ICMR Program Coordinator, Jennifer Ybarra (ybarra@icmr.ucsb.edu). Applications are welcome at any time, but should be received by October 30th for fullest consideration. Our funding structure prioritizes collaborations with countries that are not in Western Europe. 5.4: $100,000 Prize Package in 22nd Annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition: The Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and Krannert School of Management are pleased to announce the 22nd annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students of Purdue University. The Center invites interested students with a business idea to register at: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/Entrepreneurship/programs/competition/bdmCompetitio.... Total Prize package to be awarded to Purdue students is $100,000. Additional Information: Jackie Lanter, lanter@purdue.edu, 4-1335. ***************** 6. CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** 6.1: The fourth annual IEEE-NIH Life Science Systems and Application (LiSSA09) workshop co-sponsored by IEEE (www.ieee.org) and the National Institutes of Healths Nano Task Force and endorsed by Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI, www.bisti.nih.gov/bistic2.cfm) will be held on the NIH Campus in April 2009. LiSSA09 welcomes original technical papers on the advancement of life and health science systems and applications. LiSSA09 provides a forum where engineers can seek critical issues requiring sophisticated engineering techniques and scientists can find potential engineering collaborators. To facilitate this cross-disciplinary interaction, global leaders from academia, industry, and government will be invited to address challenges facing in this years theme of nanomedicine (nanomedcenter.org) from both biomedicine and engineering perspectives -- in particular, the advances made and barriers such as toxicity of nano-probes in imaging for diagnostics and therapy delivery and of nano-devices in bodies or environments. Special sessions from several IEEE societies will be included in the workshop. For detailed submission instructions, please visit the workshop web page at: http://lissa.wustl.edu. Deadlines: Nov. 28, 2008, four page papers due; Dec. 19, 2008, Acceptance notification; Jan. 16, 2009, Final camera-ready papers; Apr. 9, 2009, Workshop dates. ******************************* 7. ABSTRACTS/BIOS/DESCRIPTIONS for seminars/workshops lists above ******************************* 7.1: Thursday, 10.16.08, 4:30PM, ME 161: Role of Science and Engineering in Shaping Our Energy Future, by Dr. Paul Hommert, Sandia National Laboratories. Refreshment served 4:00PM, ME 254. ABSTRACT: As the need for affordable, reliable and lower carbon energy sources becomes a national and global imperative it is valuable to look both to the past and to the future, and explore the role that science and engineering has played. Events of 35 years ago brought energy, especially oil, to the forefront of national priorities. How do the conditions of 35 years ago compare and contrast with today? What can be learned from the impact of science and engineering on energy production, utilization and efficiency that can guide the research community as it confronts renewed national initiatives around energy? It is an economic and security imperative for the nation that the next 20 years see dramatic progress in the development of energy technologies. This progress will be led in large part by the engineers and scientists who are just beginning their careers. The Department of Energys national laboratories have held a key role in developing new energy sources and new approaches to energy conversion. Sandia National Laboratories has been a leader in energy technologies since the early 1970s. Early programs focused on coal gasification, solar thermal and geothermal energy technologies . Over the last decade wind energy and the transition to distributed sources of electricity have prompted new research and innovation. The importance of combustion as a fundamental process in energy conversion was recognized and continues to be pursued. Progress in these areas continues to be shaped by a balance between cost, performance and public acceptance. In the future the globalization of energy supply and demand, and the need for constraining the growth of carbon in the atmosphere, will place even greater stress on world energy systems. The complexities of the social and political environment will require that researchers take a systems approach and provide a range of options as well as key innovations. While progress in energy over the last generation may have been incremental, when compared to advances in information technologies, cumulatively great advances have been made in both energy and in the environment. The challenges the U.S. and the world face are how to accelerate energy innovation and how to diversify our energy options. I will suggest some new ways that the research and development communities can work to achieve these goals. BRIEF BIO: Dr. Hommert is currently Vice President of Sandias California Laboratory, located in Livermore, CA. Principal programs of the division include; nuclear weapons stewardship, homeland security with a focus on WMD defense, including bio terrorism, combustion, hydrogen energy research, biofuels, cyber security and information systems. He also leads the laboratorys Homeland Security & Defense Strategic Management Unit, which is focused on development of Sandias programs with the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Hommert earned a B.S.M.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.S.M.E. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. In 2003, he received an outstanding alumnus award for professional excellence from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. 7.2: Institute of Biological Engineering 2008 Annual Regional Student Conference: Friday, 10.17.08, social 6:00-8:00, PMU; and Saturday, 10.18.08, keynote speakers 10:30-11:30 and 1:30-2:30; student poster presentations 11:30-12:30. For further information, visit the Purdue IBE webpage at: http://www.engineering.purdue.edu/~ibe KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Richard Wagner is a former biology professor at Indiana University who is currently the chairman and CEO of Phylein, and president of Phycotransgenics. Phylein is a company whose primary focus is natural oils and biofuels. Current research at Phylein is concerned with hydrogen production in algal systems. Current Phycotransgenics research is on edible vaccines in the aquaculture industry. Dr. Wagners keynote presentation will take place on October 18th at 1:30 pm in Stewart 218. Clyde Harris, Sr. is the CEO and Senior Technical Consultant for H&H Systems, International in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Harris served as the Chief Electrical Engineer for Al Midhar and Amoumi in Alkhobar, and also worked as the senior project engineer for Al Harithy Engineering in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Seven of his seventeen years were in R&D of electrostatic precipitators, scrubber systems and air pulse bag houses, the remaining were in field service as well as some time with the Environmental Elements Corp. Mr. Harris keynote presentation will take place on October 18th at 10:30 am in Stewart 218. Conference Location: Student Union Building Friday, Oct. 17th: Social from 6:00-8:00 pm (hor doeuvres provided) Saturday, Oct. 18th: Keynote speakers at 10:30-11:30 am and 1:30-2:30 pm (continental breakfast provided) Student presentations and Poster Session from 11:30-12:30 pm ********************* 8. LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE ********************* 8.1: German Oktoberfest, Charity Wine and Beer Tasting for TRAILS OF HOPE CAMP (a special weekend camp for grieving children): Sunday, 10.19.08, 3:00-6:00PM, MaGraws Steak Chop & Fish House, South River Road, West Lafayette. TICKETS $45.00. Wine & Beer tasing, hors doeuvers; wine available for sale by the glass or bottle; raffle offerings for merchants. To purchase tickets in advance, call Shirl 765-426-7143 or Carla 765-742-7302. Tickets may also be purchased at the door. 8.2: HOLD THE DATE for craft sale: November 13th 12-1:00, Burton Morgan Café. If you want to participate in the sale, please contact Jackie Lanter (lanter@exchange.purdue.edu).